Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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926. Foretaste
1 Corinthians 15:12-34
Eulogy
Richard F. Bansemer
Death in Ols Age For the meditation text, listen to the same passage of Scripture from 1 Corinthians 15:19 from three different versions. From the Revised Standard Version: "If in this life we who are in Christ have only hope, we are of all men most to be pitied." From the Good News Bible: "If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world." And from the Living Bible: "If being a Christian is of value to us only now in this life, we ...
Drama
Edward Long
... trip, but a pretty one, as they admire the landscape; and in less than two hours are home, where they spend Christmas Day in the best of spirits. So happy are they to be a family again and to have, for reasons they can't explain, a persistent feeling of hope - hope by which we all live. We find them now the day after Christmas, having slept in late. (Lights up.) HENRY: Now that we're all up, how about if I make eggs and toast the way we like them? JOHNNY and SUZY: (Together.) Yes. FREDA: Here's the mail ...
928. Step Twelve - Responsibility
Lk 19:1-10 · Gal 6:1-10 · Is 61:1-4
Sermon
John A. Terry
... gift of life. The third image comes from an incident that happened at a banquet I attended this past year. The banquet was held at one of the big downtown hotels that was hosting several other events that night. The hostesses for the banquet were members of the Ray of Hope Christian Church. When it came time for them to begin their hostess work, they had scattered throughout the entire floor of the hotel. So their pastor, in a loud voice, shouted: "Ray of ...
929. Reality Check
Matthew 17:1-13
Sermon
Johnny Dean
... to the church, is in the hospital. She’s so weak she can’t even get up out of bed, and the doctors don’t hold much hope for her recovery. Would he go up and visit? Well, of course he will and he does. All the way to the hospital he’s thinking ... one another as I have loved you... " Love is the heart of reality. There’s a wonderful classic children’s book – I hope you’ve read it – entitled "The Velveteen Rabbit." The book is mixture of fable and insight, as many children’s classics are. The ...
930. Loving
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Larry Powell
... God, one is known by Him." There are things we do not know which we shall understand fully "by and by." But there are some things we do know for which God holds us accountable now. For example, it is His will that "ye love one another." "So faith, hope, love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love." (verse 13) As we come now to the final verse, we see that verse 13 is actually the epilogue for the preceding twelve verses. The power of love addresses us in numerous ways. Among others, (1) Love ...
Bulletin Aid
Carl Hoefler
... about it. We have used the term too lightly, without grasping the real message of what it means. Forgive us for talking about new life, and giving such little value to its newness. Forgive us for talking about salvation, without rejoicing in the hope you have given us. Fill our hearts with joy for the blessing of being restored through your Son, Jesus, in whose name we pray. Amen. Hymns “Come, Christians, Join to Sing” “How Great Thou Art” “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” “O Happy Day, That ...
Bulletin Aid
Clement E. Lewis
... by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to his grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not that only, but we also boast of our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us. For while we were still weak, at ...
Sermon
... one who can soften people’s hearts, change their minds, and turn their actions from ways that lead to danger and destruction. And we pray that the Holy Spirit will come to each of us so that we may, filled with the Spirit, live out our days in hope and love - and in the service of God and humanity. The Spirit makes life worth living - even in times of uncertainty. And the Spirit enables us to affirm Robert Muller’s last lines in his Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness (New York: Dutton, 1981, p. 212 ...
Sermon
Alton F. Wedel
... than there is for us that Jesus was indeed a king, or that his execution was a coronation, but in a way that only grace can tell, his eyes of faith were opened to behold a love the world had never seen, and in that love to find his only hope. And hope was realized. In those last moments of this life our Lord established a relationship with Dismas to endure for all eternity, "Today you shall be with me in paradise." There is no way to account for this except that God moves in with us just as we are, not ...
Sermon
... he was invited to remain as long as he wished. Such an ending would have been in far greater conformity with Christian faith. God’s challenging message to us, then, through Malachi and Jesus, is a double-barrelled one. It is a challenge to maintain faith and hope, no matter how trying or desperate the circumstances of our lives. But it is more. It is a challenge to put our faith to work positively and creatively, whatever the circumstances in which we may find ourselves. The trying time is the time of our ...
936. Proper 10
Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14
Sermon Aid
John R. Brokhoff
... Alive! Pentecost 11 - Living in the Perpendicular 1. Thank God for You! (1:3-5) Need: If one were to give thanks for you, what is there about you that would cause one to thank God? Paul thanks God for the faith, love, and hope in his Colossian people. This sermon could fill two needs: (1) a positive, constructive expression of appreciation of the character of the congregation - a sincere commendation for spiritual qualities; (2) a stimulant to prod the people to become worthy of such commendation. Put it ...
937. Proper 28
Lk 21:5-19 · 2 Thes 3:6-13 · Mal 3:19-20, 4:1-6
Sermon Aid
John R. Brokhoff
... of the Day of the Lord. The last chapter of Malachi and of the Old Testament gives the doom in terms of darkness of judgment and the hope of healing and joy for the righteous. The final word of the chapter as well as of the Old Testament is "curse." It opens the way ... warm sun make you feel better? The sun for us is the Son of God. When he rises in our lives, we can shine with gladness and hope. When he comes at the end of time, it is the beginning of an eternity of life and love. The end of the world is not ...
938. Proper 11
Romans 8:18-27
Bulletin Aid
... awaits us. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession We long to be free, Father; but we feel our sin imprisons us against our will. Our frustration leads to anxiety; and our anxiety leads us away from the hope you have promised us. Forgive us for our sins which bring so much misery, destroying the hope that is in us. Set our minds on the fact of our future glory which Christ has made available to us. In his name we pray. Amen. Hymns "God of Our Life" "God of the Ages, by Whose Hand" "My ...
Sermon
... house of David. His eye stopped over a manger in Bethlehem where God’s Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. This was God’s spectacular glance our way. This glance sent his Son into our flesh, not to do away with our weakness and frailty, but to give hope as we feel the withering come on or to give courage as we feel the fading begin. Pope Leo the Great, who stood outside Rome in the 300s of our era to confront Attila the Hun and send that ravager back to the Danube, preached the first great Christmas ...
Sermon
... . (Micah 4:4, RSV) In peace and well-being, in a time of no anxiety and no fear, all people will dwell in safety and security. This word of promise proclaims a future that will be reality because God has spoken it. It is a future which elicits hope from us. It is a promise that can energize our lives. It is a promise assisting us to shape and re-create our present. This salvation oracle is addressed to a people who have experienced defeat and disaster in the Babylonian exile. The promise proclaims what God ...
Sermon
... death, a "mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won." This unity is not sentimental; it is sacramental, for through the eucharistic meal, we commune both with God and with all others of the family of faith, living and dead. Here is comfort. Here is promise. Here is hope. And here is cause for giving thanks not as an end to our mourning but precisely in the midst of it. Here, then, is the reason those who mourn may truly be called blessed: II. "If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die ...
942. Lent 1
Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 5:12-21, Matthew 4:1-11, Genesis 2:4-25, Psalm 130:1-8
Sermon Aid
... defeated by Jesus once and for all and the fate of Jesus is sealed; the Evil One has to do everything he can to get rid of him and, as the end of Lent reminds us, he does - but only for parts of three years. The temptation of Jesus gives hope to all who are aware of the consequences of sin - death - because Satan has been overcome and Christ remains the sinless Son of God, the only one who can offer a worthy sacrifice for sin to the Father and, thereby free humanity from sin and death. The Prayer of the ...
943. Easter 3
Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47, Isaiah 43:1-13, 1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Luke 24:13-35
Sermon Aid
... the tomb, which God worked in Christ, will help the faithful continue the Easter celebration and, also, get their theology straight. The risen Lord makes himself known to his own in the word - the gospel/good news - and the breaking of the bread. Christ himself gives us hope in the face of sin and death. The Prayer of the Day There is theological reflection in the Prayer of the Day in at least one of the service books (LBW). The address to God reveals this: "O God, by the humiliation of your Son you lifted ...
944. Proper 8 & Pentecost 6
2 Kings 4:8-37, Genesis 32:22-32, Psalm 89:1-52, Psalm 17:1-15, Isaiah 2:6-22, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Matthew 10:1-42
Sermon Aid
... warned it would, but on the ultimate fall of the world. As such, it would be heavy on law and light on gospel. But there is another side to the text, and gospel side, that is more implied than fully defined. This balances the first note and gives people some hope. 1. A terrible day. Isaiah believes that there is a time when people should "get among the rocks, hide in the dust, at the sight of the terror of Yahweh." It is a day when "human pride will be humbled," and "the arrogance of men will be humbled." A ...
945. Pentecost 23
Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Ruth 2:1-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, Psalm 1:1-6
Sermon Aid
... the attempts of the scribes and Pharisees to entrap him in his teachings once and for all. The lawyer who went to him, hoping to trip up Jesus with his question, "Teacher, which is the great commandment of the law?", received an answer provided by scripture itself ... Jesus and through Word and Spirit, enables us to love as we should. Without God's help and initiative, we could not hope to have a well-rounded and two-dimensional love that would result in loving actions toward God and his people; we might ...
946. Proper 27 & Pentecost 25
Psalm 50:1-23, Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 63:1-11, Amos 5:18-27, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Matthew 25:14-30
Sermon Aid
... to a group of young girls. The Virgin continues to appear to them, even when a priest has to hide them to protect them from the anti-Christian forces in their country. But the news of the vision of Mary, once it got out, has resulted in the hope of seeing the Virgin Mary, who has promised that he will come to the world once more. But some Christians, in various parts of the world and almost every year, like the pilgrims on the hillsides in Yugoslavia, do gather in all sorts of places to await the return ...
947. Let Yes Be Yes!
Matthew 15:21-28
Sermon
... that Other Door! Said Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! In one word, that’s God’s message for this planet. It’s the gospel. It’s the hope we need, the doorway to the future. Each of us has asked ourselves and one another and the silent stars at night: "Must there not be ... those who don’t seem to have belonged in the original script. Jesus had gone preaching among stubborn Israelites (v. 24), hoping some of them would listen to God’s "Yes!" for them and, hearing it again in a fresh way, would respond with ...
948. For Freedom!
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
... probably keep strong hooks into it. I’d want the creatures placed there to feel obligation for what they did to my world. In other words, if I were God, I probably would not be fit to live with. Fortunately, God is better than we have a right to hope. He could, in fact, keep tight hooks into us, but he does not. We could have been placed here conditionally, that is, permitted to continue only as long as we use the gifts we’re given to accomplish what God wants accomplished, only as long as we use all ...
Drama
Esther R. Russ
... I, MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS" - Reading Mary: Yes, I gave birth to the son of God! Every devout Hebrew woman, faithful to the Lord, hoped and prayed she would be the chosen one - all except me. I never dreamed that such an honor would come to me. One ... his Father. I ran joyfully to Mary’s house, my heart filled with song Jesus was alive! He had come to fill my sad heart with hope! I had looked into his wonderful face again! I would carry the memory of his look of love in my heart forever! (Choir or female ...
Sermon
Peter Rudowski
... promised land, and for us, the question is, "Are we good for more from the God who created and sustains us?" The answer to that is "yes." We are good for more. Isaiah’s promise comes to us. God sends us a son and in that son we have new hope and new peace. The promise is that there is and there always will be an open and caring and trusting relationship with God because of Jesus Christ. In that relationship, you and I can talk to God about anything. We can talk to God about our loneliness. We can talk ...
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